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i am ready to use my money to help them. charity is a good thing, a lot of egos are boosted by it, and many ethical points earned even when only tiny amounts are begin to the poor. but inequality is different. every mention of it raises, in fact, to the issue of appropriateness or legitimacy of my income. and i think that's absolutely true. and that's why even when you have a discussion about the general issue of income ine wagty -- inequality, once you start saying, actually, a lot of action is in the top 1% or the top 0.1%, people get really anxious. and actually one of my nicest moments so far with the publication of my book is i gave an early talk about this in chicago, and bill daley was on the panel. and he spoke after me. and he started his talk by saying, you know, actually, i guess it is okay to talk about income inequality. it's not class war to talk about it. and i said, yes, mr. daley, that's right. it is okay. so what are the drivers? what is causing this really, really big gap? now, here, um, you know, rather o
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we are delighted to have her back to talk to us, or with us today. ambassador burt is currently now the managing director, where he led the firm's work in europe and eurasia since 2007. but prior to this, ambassador burt was the u.s. ambassador to the federal republic of germany from 85-89, and before that worked in the state department as assistant secretary of state for european and canadian affairs and 83-85. and before that was the direct of political military affairs in the department of state. so he, along with his colleagues, has a long and eminent involvement of these issues but and finally last but not least, ambassador matlock, known to many of us, career ambassador, he's been holding a series of academic posts. i'm not going to list them all, since 1981, 91, excuse me. but during his 35 years in the american foreign service, 1956-91, he served as ambassador to the soviet union from 1987-1991, a special assistant to the president for national security affairs, and senior director for european and soviet affairs on the national security staf
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archives are easy to use. the cia archives are harder to use. i would actually argue they could be -- you don't want to show from the last 20 years but i know people who have had trouble getting access and in the 40s and 50's. the national archive, i haven't actually worked in the american archives with some friends abort there. i know it's not hard to use. c-span: go back to where you started this book in 1944 and go to 1956. how did the soviets takeover eastern europe? what did they use? you mentioned a lot of stuff earlier but specifically? .. what he did to make sure that he had enough influence, because he set up -- i'll choose three institutions in particular that he felt were important. number one was the secret police. he created domain of these countries, the red army in conjunction with the kgb, secret police forces speaking the local languages. sometimes people coming from the soviet union, sometimes for natives, and began turning them in at this and they began doing that right away. when they begin in 1939. they invaded eastern polan
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this is the real thing when he used in the senate would use stapp as the president is in the museum for the cuban missile crisis those who wrote for kennedy, a servant him comment to him as a friend had their own take, interpretation and their own spin. now the visible speaker tonight, the voice we and 48 you to listen to is kennedy. we see this book as the one kennedy never had the opportunity to write. now individual who is the most responsible, caroline kennedy conceived the idea that presented the most compelling and fascinating excerpts of these recordings and she championed the publication. i can personally attest of reword, every caption come in every photograph had caroline's eye for detail and accuracy. i am sure to 90 writing that as well. also the author and editor of nine best-selling books of american history, politics. poetry. you can make that 10 best-selling boop -- books we heard "listening in" is now on the top 10 best-selling list. [applause] caroline serves as president of the kennedy library foundation for some of the programs the government could not support index
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let us pray. almighty god, creator and sustainer, we offer to you endless of thanks thanksgiving and praise today. we reremember a time of great tyranny in our world. we remember world war ii. we also remember those who stood their ground against great tyranny. those who fought here at home and on the battle fronts to ensure that tyranny would not prevail. we thank you that in the hour of need you gave men and women the strength and resolve to stand no matter the cost. may those brave souls who still remain here with us feel today your hand of favor and strength. for those who remain with us today, receive renewed hope and awareness of our gratitude for their bravery and sacrifice. we ask for your unceasing grace and bountiful blessings on them and their families. lord, we covered your wisdom on life journey and your entiring strength as we forge forward committed to building global you knowty and peace -- unify and peace. amen. ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. our first speaker today is re
let us pray. almighty god, creator and sustainer, we offer to you endless of thanks thanksgiving and praise today. we reremember a time of great tyranny in our world. we remember world war ii. we also remember those who stood their ground against great tyranny. those who fought here at home and on the battle fronts to ensure that tyranny would not prevail. we thank you that in the hour of need you gave men and women the strength and resolve to stand no matter the cost. may those brave souls who...
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. >> good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. my name is richard fontaine. i'm the president for the center of new american security. it's a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of robert kaplan's new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle against the state. i've heard it said before that you all very great author by reading his books not by buying them -- they will be sold on the stage in this room back here. bald kaplan's work is known no doubt why this audience. he's been a senior fellow and in march of 2008 a foreign correspondent for the atlantic for about a quarter of a century and is currently the chief geopolitical analyst. i first became acquainted with his writing during his book with traces of history of the tight midwesterners living and working in the middle east. and since that book, the very titles of his work goes to the coming anarchy have provoked the debate. the recent book of american power has become acquired reading by those interested in the strategic competition in
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there's a reception outside we invite you to join us. hope you'll buy the book and have the autograph it. thank you on much to you and to our commentators. heart mark >> historical novelist said to focus on five families, american, english, german, russian and welsh as they traverse the political landscape with the second world war. this is just over an hour. >> thank you and good evening. you and i have never met until 10 minutes ago, but i have to say i feel as if i know you after so many years of reading your terrific books. you've given me and most of the people here tonight tremendous pleasure. as i think one critic from your book said being able to get lost in a wonderful story and come out days or weeks later feeling as if you've learned something. so you do both things i appreciate what you do so much. to make something like an historical trilogy. that is tiny little pieces. i learned on the cbs and is issued to journalism. is that true? >> is close to the truth, yes. my first job was university reporter in the south with echo, w
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told anyone whether he would actually use them. he could not, of course, or the threat would not be credible. talk about the loneliness of command. ike knew about the command from the north after -- africa campaign, d-day, germany, and liberation of europe. ike smoked four packs a day as a general, quit cold turkey in 1949. he gave himself an order to quit, he said. he had a heart attack in 1955, and operation in 1956, a small stroke in 1957, doctors worried about the blood pressure and ordering him to worry less. what do they they the job is, he said? he tried to relax playing golf. he played 800 times as president, a record, but golf was the wrong game for a perfectionist. he was grim on the course, and once through a chipping wedge at a doctor, howard snyder, when snyder tried to make him feel better about a shot from the bunker. he had a tumper. his mother would quote the bible saying he the conquer their own soul is greater than he who takes a city. ike would say his mother taught him how to control the temper. one of the aids
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so he used deception. he used intelligence, ultra- codebreakers. and just as important he had a very high tolerance for mistakes in intelligence. he understood that intelligence is hard to do. you're going to make mistakes, covert action is hard. you going to make mistakes, so he had a hide -- he had a high tolerance for. perhaps too high. because initially the cia did have -- today, we don't feel all that great about those operations, but in 1953-54 it looked like we're getting with communism pretty cheaply and efficiently. he gave his cia a lot of roe. they started doing less well by, there's a failed coup in indonesia in 1958, a botched cue in syria i think and 57. and eisenhower's own advisers quietly start telling him the problems here, the father of the -- [inaudible] then like bob lovett and david bruce, smart guys. you've got a problem. and he says, you know, and you to get rid of dulles, allen does. his brother, john foster dulles, sector essay, a little harder to fire him, but more importantly, ike said it takes a strange kind of genius t
so he used deception. he used intelligence, ultra- codebreakers. and just as important he had a very high tolerance for mistakes in intelligence. he understood that intelligence is hard to do. you're going to make mistakes, covert action is hard. you going to make mistakes, so he had a hide -- he had a high tolerance for. perhaps too high. because initially the cia did have -- today, we don't feel all that great about those operations, but in 1953-54 it looked like we're getting with communism...
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there was an iron curtain theaters used to use to prevent fires. churchill used it first in private. >> you know why? >> it was a favor for truman. that is where truman was from. >> let's get a slice of that speech. >> an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- baltimore, berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around them lying in rubble -- lie under the soviet sphere. >> why did you want to talk about this? >> i was inspired in my first spoke -- book, and while this is in no way a sequel it represents thoughts i had. one thing i got interested in is the question why no people went along with it. what is the mentality? what are institutional pressures? why do camp guard do what they are told to do? i decided to write about this period right after world war ii, because it was a time the soviet union had reached a height, there was an apotheosis of stalinism. it was reinforced by the exp
there was an iron curtain theaters used to use to prevent fires. churchill used it first in private. >> you know why? >> it was a favor for truman. that is where truman was from. >> let's get a slice of that speech. >> an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- baltimore, berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the...
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that has allowed us to introduce constant monitoring. we have not as proposed but implemented legislation on a statewide level. and we have introduced new guidelines with the focus on observing the behavior for warning signs. schools and the police have cooperated on a range of preventive measures. we have employed 100 school psychologists and we have taken on a more active role on issues concerning schools. we have really done quite a lot to prevent another event from occurring or make it possible. >> that was the minister of interior of speaking to us earlier. to afghanistan now where they have a visit in the base in the hindu kush praising the mission as an important mission and. he sang to them for his unexpected visit and they said they deserved more recognition for their role in a military that has a condition in serving a 48 force of peace internationally. >> a german government plane making a surprise stop in afghanistan. he made the unannounced present -- visit to thank them for their service and gain a better understanding of t
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tell us and generalize for us, historians have not typically have access to anything resembling this kind of material with the exception of nixon and whatever. how were we to regard the source of information? what is it? you have to check it? is a good way to his? >> i think it is good to go. what is wonderful about these tapes is the immediacy of them. also, we do have other presidential tapes to listen to. one of the things that i actually love about these tapes of the conversations between president kennedy and his brother. when you listen to the nixon tapes, they have a certain quality. then you listen to the two kennedy brothers talking about how mean this guy is. it sounds so quaint as opposed to some of what we heard on the nixon tapes. i'm sure that there were other words used to describe problematic figures. but it really brings you back to a different moment sometimes. >> is impossible to get some insight -- maybe fresh insight about how a president works? in other words, if you have access to his behavior in the oval office, giving and taking off and at the moment of decis
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. >> good to have you with us. our top story this hour -- germany investing 10 billion euros to ensure renewable energy is available. >> will the debate be different in america after the new town school massacre. -- newtown school massacre? >> german policymakers say the countries making good progress and plans to phase out nuclear energy and increase its dependence on renewable energy. >> in berlin this morning, they delivered their first assessment of infrastructure changes that will be needed to phase out nuclear power by 2020. >> with federal elections next year, energy is a key policy issue, and the government says 10 billion euros is being invested to keep the country's infrastructure up to date. >> germany's economics minister and environment ministers say they want to work together to complete the country's energy transformation. in the past, they have squabbled about details, but now, they say they are united. >> we are going to reach our goals. environmental protection by phasing of nuclear energy and exp
. >> good to have you with us. our top story this hour -- germany investing 10 billion euros to ensure renewable energy is available. >> will the debate be different in america after the new town school massacre. -- newtown school massacre? >> german policymakers say the countries making good progress and plans to phase out nuclear energy and increase its dependence on renewable energy. >> in berlin this morning, they delivered their first assessment of infrastructure...
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chooses to use the consensus can. choose to get the news that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the life choose the access to office. live. easy to see. destruction without seeing. what could be just ruins lives saved by a great sacrifice name and restore by human jets it spinning a remarkable reminder of courage and selflessness. beauty is a. place of russia a site. a. live. live live. live live. live can. listen to. the live. welcome back to cross talk about you know about your mind you were talking about separatist. led can. still live. ok christian and i go back to you in berlin i hear the general secretary of the union of european federalists when people join the european union where they will joining a federal union ok because you know what a lot of people will say is that they lost more and more of their freedoms to make decisions about their economies civil society sick cetera. well i totally disagree to that i mean of course the european union has to be based on subsidy or it's a principle which means that the decisions are made close as p
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there was an iron curtain theaters used to use to prevent fires. churchill used it first in private. >> you know why? >> it was a favor for truman. that is where truman was from. >> let's get a slice of that speech. >> an iron curtain has descended across the continent. behind that line, like all the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe -- berlin, prague, vienna, budapest, belgrade, bucharest. all of these famous cities and the population around them lying lie under the soviet sphere. >> why did you want to talk about this? >> i was inspired in my first book, and while this is in no way a sequel it represents thoughts i had. one thing i got interested in is the question why no people went along with it. what is the mentality? what are institutional pressures? why do camp guard do what they are told to do? i decided to write about this period right after world war ii, because it was a time the soviet union had reached a height, there was an apotheosis of stalinism. it was reinforced by the experience of the war. by 1945, it w
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it's not quite clear what this separate us what with relation to foreign policy and in particular the security policies that britain's associated with because as you may well know britain has its polarised fleet. in scotland itself and the majority of scottish people by tradition would be left wing and are certainly not you know party to the british foreign policy at the moment so there's a serious political issue there ok jose what do you think about this i mean where is the continent going is it going to get stronger and stronger because it looks like there's a lot of people are not very happy well here's where this may be and the lies from their normative point of view or for and it's already open a view we have for a normative there is nothing against the creation of a new nation states provided that a majority the formulation i would use with that i mean if the independence referendum is sanctioned by a qualified majority of people i think this european union should simply accept is a from theoretical point of view we may as sort of see i mean from a different perspective a histo
it's not quite clear what this separate us what with relation to foreign policy and in particular the security policies that britain's associated with because as you may well know britain has its polarised fleet. in scotland itself and the majority of scottish people by tradition would be left wing and are certainly not you know party to the british foreign policy at the moment so there's a serious political issue there ok jose what do you think about this i mean where is the continent going is...
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>> elizabeth worked with us in the 1990s and did a lot of writing for us. she worked at the same radio scripts on the radio show in the 90s. so she understands entrepreneur capitalism, a very capable writer and also helped edit a book i did before these called the flat tax revolution, advocating flat tax. so she's got the ability and the knowledge, so i put her to good use. >> as you well know, a flat tax or any tax reform would need to go through the legislative process. what is your current opinion of congress and some of the debate they are having or not having about economic matter? >> will take the tax thing. most people now recognize as good to simplify the thing and what really stunned me is the sense in both commission when the president that with the deficit a couple years ago. democrats signed on to the idea of simplicity and reducing tax rates across the board. they didn't go as far as the flat tax, but they addressed the concept and on entitlements there needs to be fundamental reform. so i think after the election was going to be the surprise n
>> elizabeth worked with us in the 1990s and did a lot of writing for us. she worked at the same radio scripts on the radio show in the 90s. so she understands entrepreneur capitalism, a very capable writer and also helped edit a book i did before these called the flat tax revolution, advocating flat tax. so she's got the ability and the knowledge, so i put her to good use. >> as you well know, a flat tax or any tax reform would need to go through the legislative process. what is...
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by a qualified maybe already of people i think this european union should simply accept this a for us here at the open and feel we may as sort of see i mean from a different perspective our historians am that being several waves of separatism. which actually. have been produced through the twentieth century after the end of the war after cycle where war after eighty nine i mean we actually had to believe that he's thirty had called to an end but he story continues and goes on i'm from tears are not always a stable not always the same christian it's a really good point i mean over the centuries even in europe we have more and more countries i mean why stop the process. no i told them to agree peter with what antony said well i just want to go i just want to go ahead yeah i know that my point is that in a free empire i was not talking about a european nation we're talking about a federal union which we which will be something like empire has been in the past in a modern empire you need to let people come to you by attraction and not by all pression and that's the key issue so of course
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. >> thank you for joining us. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has arrived in berlin, where he is expected to face criticism for his plans to expand settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. before then, he stopped off in the czech republic. >> prague was the only government to vote no on the palestinian bid to gain non- member status. >> chancellor angela merkel has sought to reassert -- reassure the party's traditional wing. >> chancellor merkel's party conference went just the way she scripted it. was reelected chair with a record vote. there was no doubt criticism of her -- no loud criticism of her. >> our discussions here, especially on the outline we put forward, show that the christian democratic union is a foundation for a strong germany, a journey in which everyone gets a fair chance -- a germany in which everyone gets a fair chance. >> the party has rallied behind her ahead of next year's election, including traditional conservatives who have been could assert -- critical of her posit
. >> thank you for joining us. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has arrived in berlin, where he is expected to face criticism for his plans to expand settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem. before then, he stopped off in the czech republic. >> prague was the only government to vote no on the palestinian bid to gain non- member status. >> chancellor angela merkel has sought to reassert -- reassure the party's traditional wing. >> chancellor merkel's...
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and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean skills like math and science although we are lagging behind 30 or 40 other countries in the world in that regard. it also means skills associated with creativity and innovation because our edge as a country comes in the area where we can use our creativity but we also protect creativity in a way that places like china and others don't. in a content driven world, software driven world, that combination of creative people, a system that promotes and protect creativity is probably the real ace in the hole. >> host: let's take bob's comment and tie that
and into every classroom using video and the internet. we need to recognize and education assistance designed for an agrarian era and give kids the summer of doesn't make sense and an educational system designed for people having one career in their lives beginning when they turn 21 and extending 20 years after that doesn't work and people need lifelong education and we need to educate people for the skills that are required by the evolve and high value-added economy and that doesn't just mean...
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this term, this year, my life to my being useful. i want to be useful. on my tombstone, he was useful. live the long time. i want to be useful. it i don't want just to say the words, i want to make a difference. >> you already are. i think you on behalf of not only a library of congress and the children's book council and every child, but on behalf of the audience and for our country , the wonderful job your doing. walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you. >> we continue our coverage of the international summit of the book with the panel tell the role of cultural institutions and foster in the future of the book. this is about 50 minutes. >> we are coming to the second session of our day which would be a panel discussion on the role of cultural ostentations and posturing and the future of the book. i will turn to the panel's moderator to introduce the panelists once we are all on stage. sir harold is a distinguished feature in publishing in journalism. i'm sure you've heard of him. president and publisher of random house and the tra
this term, this year, my life to my being useful. i want to be useful. on my tombstone, he was useful. live the long time. i want to be useful. it i don't want just to say the words, i want to make a difference. >> you already are. i think you on behalf of not only a library of congress and the children's book council and every child, but on behalf of the audience and for our country , the wonderful job your doing. walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you....
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it cannot win, but it can make us all losers. still levitate on the meaning of this great contest, we have assembled a distinguished panel of chambers intellectual and moral airs. peter berkowitz is the current. senior fellow at the hoover institution, where he chairs the hoover taskforce on national security and law and cochairs the hoover task force on the virtues of a free society. in the past he served as an associate professor at george mason university school of law and an assistant and associate professor at harvard university. he is the author of virtue and the making of modern liberalism and the ethics seven moralist. he holds that j.d. and a ph.d. in political science from this institution, a master's in philosophy from the hebrew university of jerusalem and a d.a. in english literature from swarthmore college. i feel sort of silly introducing these people because everyone knows who they are, but still, i have to. serve as the editor in chief of commentary magazine from 1960- 1995, and is their current editor at large.
it cannot win, but it can make us all losers. still levitate on the meaning of this great contest, we have assembled a distinguished panel of chambers intellectual and moral airs. peter berkowitz is the current. senior fellow at the hoover institution, where he chairs the hoover taskforce on national security and law and cochairs the hoover task force on the virtues of a free society. in the past he served as an associate professor at george mason university school of law and an assistant and...
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use them to see if destruction without the see. what could have been just ruins lives saved by a great sacrifice. and restored by huge efforts. a remarkable reminder of courage and selflessness and. truth beauty is of all people. playing into all of russia for a song i. look forward to the. science technology innovation all the list of melon mints from around russia we've dumped those huge you're covered. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. welcome to the big picture. and. welcome back across you know about to remind you we're talking about separatism. and. ok chris and i go back to you in berlin you're the general secretary of the union of european federalists when people join the european union where they will joi
use them to see if destruction without the see. what could have been just ruins lives saved by a great sacrifice. and restored by huge efforts. a remarkable reminder of courage and selflessness and. truth beauty is of all people. playing into all of russia for a song i. look forward to the. science technology innovation all the list of melon mints from around russia we've dumped those huge you're covered. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with...
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stay with us. >> thanks for staying with us. >> welcome back. it is the biggest betting scandal in european soccer. a gang operating from berlin paid bribes to influence and dozens of matches. that thought to have netted over 2 million euros in the course of their crime. >> the case is headed back to trial. germany's highest court has overturned parts of the verdict against the ringleader of the group, ruling that some of the charges had not been fully addressed by the lower court. >> he admitted to manipulating more than 20 games across europe. together with a group of accomplices, he plate -- paid cash to players and officials to influence the action on a field. he put big bets on those games by bookmakers in asia. the court today confirmed that it was a clear attempt to cheat them out of money. >> the court today made a clear ruling confirming that the manipulation of sporting betts announced -- amounts to fraud. the bookmakers were in effect deceived. >> but the judges also overturned parts of the original verdict. he had already served time
stay with us. >> thanks for staying with us. >> welcome back. it is the biggest betting scandal in european soccer. a gang operating from berlin paid bribes to influence and dozens of matches. that thought to have netted over 2 million euros in the course of their crime. >> the case is headed back to trial. germany's highest court has overturned parts of the verdict against the ringleader of the group, ruling that some of the charges had not been fully addressed by the lower...
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he is actually quite charming in his use of it -- for example, twitter. i think he is drawing attention to something that concerns a lot of people, not just catholics or christians, and that is that in the revolution, the information revolution that we are living through, the past 30 years or so, we are all of us experiencing the increasing pace of that revolution that is putting people in distress. we experience it has individuals with the phenomenon is burned -- phenomenon of burnout, which is virtually epidemic in the western world. of course, for society, it has a very serious repercussion, mainly that a society where everybody feels overloaded and cannot cope with how much they are being asked to do, it becomes a very uncaring society, a very egotistical society, and ultimately carries the seeds of its own destruction within itself. that was his message. >> what struck you about his message today, christmas day? >> i thought it interesting that he highlighted specifically the conflict in syria. he had mentioned last night various trouble spots around
he is actually quite charming in his use of it -- for example, twitter. i think he is drawing attention to something that concerns a lot of people, not just catholics or christians, and that is that in the revolution, the information revolution that we are living through, the past 30 years or so, we are all of us experiencing the increasing pace of that revolution that is putting people in distress. we experience it has individuals with the phenomenon is burned -- phenomenon of burnout, which...
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they squandered five or six years of their lives that could have been used productively to use money and to acquire skills that would have provided them with a comfortable living. there are certain things going to college makes a lot of sense that the vast majority of college graduates do jobs that high school graduates could do. they drop out of high school, so this is all a myth that everybody has to go to college, that the solution is to spend more money. it's all left the leave come myth. the biggest losers are the kids that squander their youth and adult acquire real skills. they acquire mortgages but no houses and the society, society is poor because we are wasting all these resources. one of the reasons the college graduates graduate into an economy with no jobs is because all of the capitol that would have gone to the businesses to employ them is directed to the universities to educate them and they are not really educated. they are more indoctrinated and they just party and now because money went to universities instead of businesses they graduate and they can't get a job so
they squandered five or six years of their lives that could have been used productively to use money and to acquire skills that would have provided them with a comfortable living. there are certain things going to college makes a lot of sense that the vast majority of college graduates do jobs that high school graduates could do. they drop out of high school, so this is all a myth that everybody has to go to college, that the solution is to spend more money. it's all left the leave come myth....
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what did they use? you mentioned a lot of stuff earlier, but give us some examples. >> there were three or four institutions they considered important. if you look at the world in 1945, stalin did not have plans. he did not have a 10-point plan. he was an opportunist and a tactician. he had a conviction sooner or later these would become communist countries, because marx's ideology said so. it said there will be international revolutions and the soviet union will bring these revolutions to the countries. he had a conviction it would happen but not a lot of uncertainty about -- a lot of certainty about when. what he did to make sure he had enough influence -- i will choose three institutions in particular he thought were important. number one was the secret police. he created a secret police forces speaking the local languages, sometimes from the soviet union, and began training them, and they began doing that right away. they begin in 1939, and they began creating a polish secret police force and then,
what did they use? you mentioned a lot of stuff earlier, but give us some examples. >> there were three or four institutions they considered important. if you look at the world in 1945, stalin did not have plans. he did not have a 10-point plan. he was an opportunist and a tactician. he had a conviction sooner or later these would become communist countries, because marx's ideology said so. it said there will be international revolutions and the soviet union will bring these revolutions...
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stay with us. >> and welcome back. the eu has repeatedly called on romania to clean up the nation's income corruption, so it is no wonder the issue is playing a central role in national elections set for sunday. >> it is also very much a clash of personalities with the prime minister of the social democrats in a running battle with the president. >> it is a dramatic battle as well. punta launched a failed bid to have his rival driven from office earlier this year. >> election posters are plastered all over romania's capital. the governing social democrat liberal coalition is leaving no chance on used to prevail. this ad says, cassette and we've kept our word," over a photograph of the prime minister. he annulled cuts in social spending that were enacted by the previous conservative government. but romanian politics are deadlocked because of the bitter long-running feud with the conservative supporting president. the european union says the efforts to remove him from office are undemocratic. one analyst says the fight h
stay with us. >> and welcome back. the eu has repeatedly called on romania to clean up the nation's income corruption, so it is no wonder the issue is playing a central role in national elections set for sunday. >> it is also very much a clash of personalities with the prime minister of the social democrats in a running battle with the president. >> it is a dramatic battle as well. punta launched a failed bid to have his rival driven from office earlier this year. >>...
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going to great job for us. maybe we should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up gone apocalypse scenario so the band they're going to. start. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all any significant gun control measures an update in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. and in the meantime i want a group in utah has come up with their own unique way to prevent more shootings more guns to schools but this time giving them to teachers so. now it's ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. iran's holding a fresh round of naval drills in the strait of hormuz that's one of the world's busiest oil and gas shipping routes and the six day war games come as the west systematically builds up pressure on iran over its nuclear program and its speculations of a military confrontation a bit earlier i spoke to professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehra
going to great job for us. maybe we should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up gone apocalypse scenario so the band they're going to. start. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening any time soon after all any significant gun control measures an update in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. and in the meantime i want a group in utah has come up with their own unique...
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stay with us. maestro gustavo dudamel, sir simon once called him quote the most astonishingly giftsed conductor i have ever come across. he is the music director of the simon bolivar symphony organize trav venz venses and the los angeles fill har fonic. here he is performing with the l.a. philharmonic. ♪ . >> rose: do you feel some sense of responsibility because of the position you hold now around the world to introduce the world to latin america and music? >> oh, absolutely, of course. but look, for us the most important thing is to put our music in the same level of how to say, of importance, as beethoven, as or nono, especially talking about modern composers. because when we talk about our music we are talking about music of the 20th century. especially 20th century and that is the important thing. can't you imagine, i was thinking this this is all new music for many people, you know. the concerts are sold out. you know, it's something very special because people are coming with this kind of
stay with us. maestro gustavo dudamel, sir simon once called him quote the most astonishingly giftsed conductor i have ever come across. he is the music director of the simon bolivar symphony organize trav venz venses and the los angeles fill har fonic. here he is performing with the l.a. philharmonic. ♪ . >> rose: do you feel some sense of responsibility because of the position you hold now around the world to introduce the world to latin america and music? >> oh, absolutely, of...
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we're using the 4g license. he wanted -- okay, let me say something about the -- can i say something about the 4g license? you've had 20 minutes, you didn't make any points at all. [laughter] we are using the 4g money in part for new capital spending including building fe colleges, one of which is called the leeds city college in a town called morley in west yorkshire. i'm not sure what the local mps would make of the shadow chance already's decision that that's not the best use of the money, but he can look at himself in the mirror and ask the question. he can't answer these basic questions. and let me come down, let me end by making this final point. he tries to claim, he tries to claim that all the problems in britain, all the problems in britain began in the may 2010, that they're all the fault of this government. literally only the people in the -- [inaudible] claim that. there is not a single person in the labour party, there is not a single person in any business organization, there's not a single person
we're using the 4g license. he wanted -- okay, let me say something about the -- can i say something about the 4g license? you've had 20 minutes, you didn't make any points at all. [laughter] we are using the 4g money in part for new capital spending including building fe colleges, one of which is called the leeds city college in a town called morley in west yorkshire. i'm not sure what the local mps would make of the shadow chance already's decision that that's not the best use of the money,...
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in this kenyan village, the chief uses twitter to communicate with residents. he says it has made the running of the community much smoother. >> i believe that is the best example. we find that those people are the grassroots. those people in the villages, they don't know about technology. they have been suffering. >> it also means his friends back home can follow him on his dirty to geneva, despite the difference -- on his journey to geneva, despite the differences -- distance. >> that's it for "journal." >> find more at www.dw.de. see you soon.
in this kenyan village, the chief uses twitter to communicate with residents. he says it has made the running of the community much smoother. >> i believe that is the best example. we find that those people are the grassroots. those people in the villages, they don't know about technology. they have been suffering. >> it also means his friends back home can follow him on his dirty to geneva, despite the difference -- on his journey to geneva, despite the differences -- distance....
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and i think you can join us and hopefully bring us a little bit of idea of what's happening at the ok this is we're just going to take you through some of the cities of course that was going into county washington she'll be joining us later so we're going to go around the world really and we've also with true from cairo paula slater from the middle east now we did do a little check just now a car we show you. is the red square it looks great when we saw it we can see more the molecule becoming up behind us now of course the big build is going to future can i get you are you all right you have been where you are in red square bring us up to date on the feeling this time around twenty twelve in the heart of russia and celebrations what's happening. for you guys unfortunately you can't see it live here because you're in the fancy studio but i'm here on red square and in the city center still and this is definitely the main spot in the city if not in the country to celebrate the new years to hear the actual countdown of the year on the clock on the hour or for the kremlin usually it's bro
and i think you can join us and hopefully bring us a little bit of idea of what's happening at the ok this is we're just going to take you through some of the cities of course that was going into county washington she'll be joining us later so we're going to go around the world really and we've also with true from cairo paula slater from the middle east now we did do a little check just now a car we show you. is the red square it looks great when we saw it we can see more the molecule becoming...
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use your own judgment and decide what you're comfortable with. so i got to talk to people who really knew her well and relatives send dog trainers and people who ran her estates and the manager, her horse trainers. it was crown jewelers, politicians who knew her and members of the clergy so what i loved with a book like this is getting many angles of visions, some quite intimate and some people who had very focused intent like the portrait artist for example. a very informal time with her and saw a whole different view of her than other people. >> finally sally bedell smith, why do we care about the royal family like we do? >> they are an extraordinary institution that binds britain together through their continuity, their connection to british history and today really, there's a term which is not terribly good but they call it the welfare monarchy. the queen and all the members of her family spends so much time supporting charities, can and should beating their names and their efforts and you know, they reward people for good works and they set
use your own judgment and decide what you're comfortable with. so i got to talk to people who really knew her well and relatives send dog trainers and people who ran her estates and the manager, her horse trainers. it was crown jewelers, politicians who knew her and members of the clergy so what i loved with a book like this is getting many angles of visions, some quite intimate and some people who had very focused intent like the portrait artist for example. a very informal time with her and...
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you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> with just days left in this month and this year, many publications are putting together a year and a list of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selection. these titles were included in the "christian science monitor"'s 15 best books of 2012-nonfiction. >> for an extended list of links to various
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creativity always comes as a surprise to us. so you cannot plan it. if you plan it, you wouldn't need it. >> mr. gilder, can mitt romney used the phrase politically supply-side economics quiets >> i think he could. in all, he's surviving the vatican inspiration and that book fair was quoted more -- made me president reagan's most quoted living author. he quoted that book regularly throughout his administration. reagan didn't ounce the budget. actually during the reagan administration, there is a dollars increase in government debt overall. he was winning the cold war. but the private sector increased its assets by some $17 trillion under carter we had pretty much a balance budget and a balanced trade. but the people, the private economy was all in the rad. but really not hers is not just the account. that is bad and ultimately too much to his unfortunate. but what not hers is not so much the liabilities of the economy. it's the assets. under reagan's supply-side movement, the private assets of the american economy boomed. so the liabilities became les
creativity always comes as a surprise to us. so you cannot plan it. if you plan it, you wouldn't need it. >> mr. gilder, can mitt romney used the phrase politically supply-side economics quiets >> i think he could. in all, he's surviving the vatican inspiration and that book fair was quoted more -- made me president reagan's most quoted living author. he quoted that book regularly throughout his administration. reagan didn't ounce the budget. actually during the reagan...